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That is exactly what this tutorial is going to help you avoid. The techniques in this school of drawing combine the ease and fluidity of the stylish old school short-hand and the vivid characterisation of the modern realism. This is how I do comics. You don't have to do your comics like this, I don't expect you to. But you might find some useful stuff in this tutorial that you can take away and incorporate into your own style. So, let's begin! 1) Plan Your Features When you pick up a Marvel or DC "How to Draw" book, they'll teach you one way to draw faces. (I won't touch manga in this tute, but they, too, teach you one way to draw and have the same weaknesses as that of old school Western sequential art). Here is how they show you:
Well‌ something like that. I never have been able to get those Big Two faces quite right! They're okay. They're faces and they do the job. As I said in the introduction, though, when more than one person of the same colouring enters the picture, we start having troubles! Even if you manage to separate them in the file:///J|/uniquecomicfaces.htm (2 of 11) [8/08/2008 7:30:42 PM]
